Shelf-Pick is a book recommendation series by the Centre for Writing and Communication, Ashoka University. In this episode, we have Prof. Dermot Killingley, Retired Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Newcastle University. He talks about his publication: "Beginning Sanskrit: A Practical Course Based On Graded Reading and Exercises" in three volumes (revised by Dermot Killingley and Siew-Yue Killingley, 2003). Dermot Killingley studied Latin, Greek and Sanskrit at Merton College, Oxford from 1955 to 1959, and Middle Iranian languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, from 1959 to 1961. He returned to SOAS in 1968 to study Indian philosophy. He taught in the Department of Indian Studies, University of Malaya, from 1961 to 1968, and in the Department of Religious Studies, Newcastle University, from 1970 to 2000, when he retired as Reader in Hindu Studies. In 2008, he taught at the University of Vienna as a Visiting Professor. He is now joint editor (with Simon Brodbeck, Karen O’Brien-Kop and Anna King) of Religions of South Asia (RoSA).
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Shelf Pick | Dermot Killingley, Retired Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies, Newcastle University
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